No matter how you slice it, … it’s one of the best months ever.

These are small, insignificant adjustments relative to the size of the company.

Barring something we don’t see coming, like $2 gasoline or 10 percent interest rates, I don’t see the slowdown coming anytime soon.

It’s a list of housekeeping items. I hate to disappoint the people who want to panic over all this.

It looks like they bought a good part of York’s program, though I’m not sure they didn’t plan these changes anyway. York’s arrival on the board simply accelerated the changes.

Obviously the market likes the Chrysler deal, … But this doesn’t have to cause a cascade of other mergers.

You have to praise their sense of realism, that they’ll never get to a 25 percent share again. They have got to do this to survive.

If I wanted to sleep at night I’d own GM, but I think Ford has a higher percentage chance of bouncing back.

Everything was great in North America. But they were struggling elsewhere. I think that they’re running into a lot of competition in pricing and product.

A decline is not a surprise here, but the size of the decline is a surprise,

I think all of us on Wall Street were misled not only by the company’s first quarter guidance, but also by fact back in the fourth quarter, their North American margins were disappointing and terrible....

Considering all the headwinds you had to deal with in the early part of the year, I think it turned out rather well.

October was even better than I expected. Cars are cheaper, GM is back from the strike, and despite what’s happening in the stock market, consumer confidence levels are high.

I would say that’s the best-ever result we’ve had,

These are things they’ve got to do, but there’s a lot more. They’ve got too many models, too many people and too many plants for the amount of business they’re doing now.

It makes the transaction simpler.